"iTunes Connect reopens early from holiday shutdown: Access to Apple's iTunes Connect service reopened a day shy of taking the full week planned for the yearly holiday shutdown of the website." AppleInsider 9:02 PM

"Lion is suffering from classical bloat. Which is why I call Lion the Windows Vista of Mac OS.: The Lion experience is much slower than Snow Leopard even if the underlying hardware and programs are better performing." MacInTouch 5:06 PM

"Regarding David Fink's comments about Applescript, Ruby and Matt Neuberg, I agree that anyone capable of writing a book on Applescript, as well as a book on Ruby and Applescript, should probably be using Ruby as a front end to Applescript. Ditto for folks who are professional programmers or equivalent. For the rest of us, getting things done with lowly Applescript (and other natural language scripting environments, such as LiveCode) is a much more attainable proposition." MacInTouch 5:06 PM